The Portland daily press., 1887-04-05

morning. A tenement house occupied nv
four families was also swept away by the
flood and wrecked. John Bowman and his
daughter young man namn named n 1r, John Mclean
drowned and man named Laid and his
daughter are missing
Clarlxyille. Tenn, was visited by fire that
did $3.50, 600 worth Of damage last Sunday.
The man who was arrested at Suspension
Bridge. New York, Saturday, for robbing
Express Messenger Lake near Utica, is be-
lieved to be Michael Rouk, who spent some
time in Syracuse two years ago.
Nine persons who died at Sergeant He'd.
were seriously poisoned by eating ice cream.
1t Is expected they will recover.
President Cleveland held his usual after
noon reception to the pqblic yesterday There
were about $50 persons In attenpance. Among
them were John L. Sullivan and members Of
his combination.
While the Salvation army was holding a
meeting in public hall In Savannah, Ca,
Sunday night, q free fight occurred. Several
members Of the corps were arrested Just be-
fore the meeting began for playing a brass
band That encouraged the hoodlums, who
had gone to the hall in great numbers. They
jumped up in a body and took possession of
the meeting. Billies, pistols and knives were
drawn and the greatest excitement ensued.
About a dozen noses and heads were broken
before the police arrived and cleared the hall.
Governor Hill of Virginia yesterday re-
ceived cablegram from the chairman Of the
counsel of foreign bondholders in London,
stating that commission Is In preparation,
and win start in few days. The governor
transmitted the cablegram to both houses,
whereupon joint committee was appointed
to meet the representatives of the bondhold-
ers and confer with them upon the State
debt question, with view to its settlement.
1t is said that Kissane, the forger, and Col.
Wm K. Rogers, a wealthy citizen Of Califor-
mia, are one and the same person.
The health of Daniel Manning is improv-
ing. Yesterday he was out walking, besides
taking carriage exercise.
An unknown large two-masted schooner
ran into the shoals several miles soff Cotuit
Bay, Nantucket during the storm Saturday
and sunk. Only the mast heads are now
visible from the shore.
A large quantity of dynamite, used for
blasting and stored in frame shanty on the
outskirts of Reading, Pa. exploded yesterday
forenoon. Andrew Lunt had both legs
blewn off and will die. Two Italians were
fearfully injured.
Slosson defeated Schaefer at cushion
caroms in Chicago last night for $500 side.
Slosson won, scorning 800 to Schaefer's 482.
Faneuil Hall, Boston, was packed almost
to suffocation last night by thoroughly
sion being meeting to express condemna-
tlon OF the Irish crimes bill. Govearnor
Ames, Lieutenant Governor Bracket, Mayor
OBrien, Senator Hoar, Revenue Collector
Fitzgerald, Mayor Ruessell of Cambridge.
John Boyle 0'Reilley, Deputy Collector
flatley and others were present. Eleven
hundred and three dollars were raised for
the League fund.
b. f. Jones, chairman of the National Re-
publican Committee, yesterday stated posi-
lively that he was not a candidate for re-
election.
Ship Favonius reports in New York, that
in typhoon off the coast of Japan, eNovem-
native OF Nova Scotia, and Thomas Brown,
West Indian seaman. were washed over
board and drowned.
john Most, ex-convict and an apostle Of
Anarchy, was given a reception in Cooper
Union, New York, last night.
The United States Grand Jury in San
Francisco, have found 40 indictments against
prominent men for fraudulent land surveys.
The present surveyor general of California
is one of the men.
Cardinal Taschereau arrived in America
from Rome yesterday. He says the Knights
Of Labor Of Canada viii not be approved by
the church.
Portions of another charred body were
found in the Richmond Hotel ruins at Buff
falo yesterday afternoon. The remains are
thought to be parts of the body of either
Milnie Kelly, servant, or Mark Osborne,
day clerk.
Volney r. Chamberlain of Cambridge,
Mass, against whom suits for perjury and
concealment of assets to the amount of $780,
600 have been brought by John p. Squire &
Co., the we'll known Cambridge pork pack
ers, committed suicide at his home yester-
day.
The Washington residence Of Senator
Blair was damaged by fire and water yester-
day, to the extent of $4,000
The Trinidad Journal of March 22d says
that cutter belonging to the American man
ofwar Saratoga, was capsized off Labrea
and that five of the occupants were drowned.
Judge Gresham, in the United States Cir
cult Court at Chicago, yesterday, appointed
General John McNutta, of Bloomington, H.,
to be receiver of the Wabash line lying east
Of the Mississippi river. General McNutta
is a lawyer.